Nifty new styleswitcher

As a self-prescribed stress-relieving treatment, I have installed Jonathan Foucher’s style sheet chooser plugin for WordPress, so now you can choose your favorite style to look at the page. The new style is called “Whistler” because it’s based on a painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, “Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights,” that lives at The Tate, which, incidentally has an excellent website of their entire collection (65,000 works!).

Also, Vaughn said not to worry about finishing the facebook by tomorrow– he’s going to put the order in on Wednesday. This takes loads of stress off: now I’m merely the normal overcommitted Harvard student, rather than one paralyzed with stress, as I was earlier this evening. Really paralyzed, I mean. I couldn’t not work because I’ve got so many things to do, but I also couldn’t work because any work I did would be taking time away from some other thing I should be doing. The result? I went and sat in Sam’s armchair and watched him attempt to code on the the Veritones website, which he has suddenly been made webmaster of, even though he knows absolutely zero html.

That’s what led me to go work on my own site. I found that thinking about coding was giving me something abstract to think about that was completely unrelated to the things that were stressing me out, and took up enough of my thought process to keep me from thinking about stressful things. Maybe soon I’ll make a style that actually has polka-dots. Or zebras.